§ 11.“The Chinese danger”.... By 1920–25 the Chinese will have
gone such a long way, etc., etc.

...“Theindustrial monopoly of the West-European sphere of
civilisation is doomed”... (203).

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p. 207. The question amounts to this: will the proletariat in the
industrial countries be able “to replace or retain the vanishing peasant
basis of food and clothing”?

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“The answer to the clear-cut question must be a downright, clear,
remorseless No ” (207).

209:It is impossible to obtain (in Europe) 200 million sheep
15-20 million bales of cotton, etc.

“Thereis no point in it (the proletariat) wanting to expropriate the
capitalists, for the industrial means of production are no longer
utilisable” (210), and it will not be able to go over to
agriculture (211)....

“Thepossibility is thus excluded of a democratic socialism in the
sense of a uniform, tightly-knit regulation of production as a whole by the
mass of the
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people who possess nothing and rule everything.... Much more probable than
the domination of peasant production by an industrial democracy is the
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domination of industrial production by a peasant democracy” (213).

“However,the realisation of democratic socialism through an
industrial democracy is absolutely ruled out if we accept:

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“1. that peasant economy holds sway in the most important spheres of
organic production;

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“2. that the peasant masses hold fast to the private basis of production;

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“3. that the peasant countries naturally endeavour to draw into their
sphere the greatest possible share of industrial production;

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“4. that, under the prevailing conditions of inter national competition,
especially with the Chinese quarter of mankind drawn into the nexus of
world economy, and with the conversion of other hitherto agrarian countries
into industrial states, they can quite freely dispose of their industrial
incomes which have already been monopolised not by them (215);

“5.that, on the other hand, the industrial states are to a growing
extent dependent on foreign peasant bases for their supplies of food and
clothing raw materials” (216)....

...“Theunfortunate thing is that the industrialisation
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of the East, following the penetration of Western technical culture, can
proceed much faster than the agrarianisation of the West, with its
industrial over-tension and, it can be safely said, its industrial
degeneration” (219)....

!!!||Conclusion (i.e., last chapter): “United States of
Western Europe”
(229)....[1]

TheAfrican peoples require “guidance and care” “for an indefinite
time to come” (232).... In 20–30 years it will be difficult even for
Russia + Great Britain + France “to oppose a Chinese-Japanese coalition”
(231)....

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there is the possibility of a “great Islamic movement” in Africa, which
will be “simultaneously both revolutionary and reactionary” (233).

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“To prevent” (p. 233 in fine) such a movement—is in the “vital
interest” of Western Europe.

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234—“Consequently” “joint action in Africa by all the West-European
states” is essential.

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234—It is hopeless to expect Russia (+Japan, China and the
United States) to join in agreements (on disarmament and so forth)—the
West-European nations must unite.